Verse 26

²⁶Then the revered Rudra said this to Rudrani, with the gods and sages, the Daityas and siddhas and his own attendants listening: ²⁷You have seen, fair one, the greatness of Hari, whose deeds are marvellous — the greatness of the servants of his servants, who want nothing, whose selves are great. ²⁸All those given over to Narayana fear nothing from any side. They see the same worth in heaven, in release, and in the hells. ²⁹For those in bodies, out of their joining with a body come the pairs, by the Lord's play: happiness and pain, death and birth, and curse and favour too. ³⁰A man's dividing up of things, as if within the self, is made by a failure of discernment; and the sorting into merit and fault is likewise a division made, as with a garland.

³¹For men who carry devotion to Vasudeva, the Bhagavan, and whose strength is knowledge and detachment, there is no other shelter needed here.